3-storey flats
Roundabouts
Chicanes
'Traffic-calming'
Street Furniture
Urbanisation

High-rise Chalfont

May 2005
The NSE submit late changes to their planning application to CDC and their appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. Included are roundabouts, chicanes etc. on Chesham Lane and Monument Lane. A site plan is submitted that refers to many 3-storey buildings on the proposed housing estate (formerly it was 2/3-storey).  Uncertainty prevails over the NSE's plans for Skippings Farm and the 'Road to Nowhere.'

1. NSE Plan Confirmation- 11 x 3-storey Buildings


High-rise Chalfont
Does anyone remember anything about promises to inform and consult with their neighbours?

The NSE propose that ALL the sheltered accommodation, ALL the retirement home accommodation and 9 other buildings on the Rickmansworth Lane Housing Estate be built 3 storeys high.

Have you been aware of that for the past year or so? What has always been inappropriate has become grossly inappropriate.

2. NSE Change Plan - Extensive road changes on Chesham Lane
Does anyone remember anything about promises to inform and consult with their neighbours? The NSE said their proposals wouldn't unduly affect traffic, yet they now propose 2 (two!) roundabouts and 3 width restrictions/chicanes on Chesham and Monument Lanes.  What is presently semi-rural is set to become urbanised should the NSE dictate be accepted.

As most people will be aware, the NSE have had a bee in their bonnet about so-called "traffic calming" for ages. This looks like their backdoor approach. And it's kind of odd really, because their site will not generate any more traffic than today - it's the 440 or so cars on the housing estate on Rickmansworth Lane that would generate more traffic. But no NSE "traffic calming" is proposed there. Could it perhaps be because the NSE won't be directly affected?

sense also note that the NSE propose closing their main entrance to traffic and routing it all to the Debenham House entrance,  Then, business attended to, it returns back along Chesham Lane to the (old) main entrance to return to Chalfont St Peter.  It amounts to a traffic-generation scheme.  Then, having generated extra traffic, they say that they want 'traffic-calming'!
sense have a better idea - leave well enough alone!

What else is in store that the NSE has not yet revealed to the local community?

3. NSE Plan Uncertain - Is the 'Road to Nowhere' back on the NSE Agenda?
Does anyone remember anything about promises to inform and consult with their neighbours? The 'Road to Nowhere' originated from a planning application in 1999 for an agricultural access road directly from Chesham Lane to Skippings Farm. This was through Green Belt land within the Colne Valley Park but was agreed by CDC because it was for agricultural use. As we all know, farm use ceased and the NSE did nothing with the application until it was about to lapse when they then commenced work, but CDC held the work to be unauthorised and the permission lapsed.

It looks as if it's back! Quite why is not clear - the NSE should have two other entrances for their own site and the proposed road loops right round Skippings Farm to get to the NSE's main-use buildings, a much convoluted route compared with the existing entrances. This time around there's no agricultural justification - it's a completely unwarranted road through Green Belt and Colne Valley Park land. Also, quite what the NSE have in mind for Skippings Farm itself is not clear - it may be Green Belt, it may be Colne Valley Park, but given the NSE's attitude to planning principles generally, sense fear the worst.